.TH QUIKMAN 1 LOCAL

.SH NAME

quikman - A FreeBSD/Linux/Unix GUI manual viewer/reader written in QT.

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B quikman [ manual_name.section_no ]

.SH DESCRIPTION
A replacement for xman utility. A quicker and an easier way to view the manual pages, complete with ability to open compressed (gz'd, bz2'd, lzma'd and Z'd) manuals and referenced manuals. Its also a brilliant learning tool for commands and library/system functions.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP 14

manual_name

Name of the manual to start the quikman with.

.TP 14
section_no

Section of the of the manual.

.SH EXAMPLES

.TP
.B quikman

Starts quikman with the last recently viewed manual page
or the manual page 'man(1)'.

.TP
.B quikman whatis.1

Starts quikman with the manual 'whatis(1)'.

.SH RESOURCES

This product requires X with QT libraries.

.SH FILES

.TP
.B ~/.all

Stores the database information of all manuals.

.TP
.B ~/.recent

Stores the most recently accessed manuals.

.TP
.B ~/.history

Stores the history.

.SH NOTES
.B "If the database '~/.all' becomes corrupted (lot of manuals don't open), delete the file and restart quikman
.B or activate 'File>Rebuild DB' in the gui interface main menu."

.SH AUTHOR

Anoop Kumar Narayanan

.SH LICENSE

Read the LICENSE file.

.SH COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009-* Anoop Kumar Narayanan

.SH WARRANTY

None. Comes with no warranty what so ever. Use at you own risk.
Read LICENSE present in the package for more disheartening
information.

.SH WEBSITE

http://quikman.googlecode.com/

.SH SEE ALSO

.B man(1), compressman(1), bash(1)
